The Case Against Spanking: How to Discipline Your Child Without Hitting

ISBN-13: 9780787903428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 250 str.

Irwin A. Hyman;Hyman

Opis

This book offers parents and teachers constructive methods of discipline, useful for everyday situations. It documents the long-term negative effects of spanking?how it brutalizes kids and creates violent adults. Irwin Hyman, an expert in the field of home and school discipline, explains in a passionate and compelling style why spanking or hitting children is abusive, destructive, and counterproductive. He then gives common sense advice on alternative forms of discipline, which help to raise happy and emotionally stable children.

Recenzje

?A `must–read′ book about the spanking controversy that should be of interest to parents, parent educators, and mental health professionals.? ––Charles E. Schaefer, coauthor of How to Talk to Your Kids About Really Important Things

"A good addition to most public library parenting collections."

"In this informative text, Hyman shores up his passion for children′s rights with logic and research."

"[Hyman] presents a convincing arguement against spanking in the home and includes a Parent Punitive Quiz by which readers can measure their attitudes toward punishment."

Spis treści

An Alien Point of View.

Abuse or Discipline?

Why We Hit and What It Does to Kids.

Back to Basics: What You Need to Know About Effective Discipline.

Changing Your Approach to Discipline.

Rewards and Punishments.

Anger and Resentment.

Using Therapeutic Techniques.

What We Need to Do Next.

O autorze

IRWIN A. HYMAN is director of the National Center for the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives in the Schools and professor of school psychology at Temple University. He has made numerous appearance on national television shows such as Oprah, Good Morning American and the Today show.

Blurb

Irwin Hyman, an expert in the field of home and school discipline, explains in a passionate and compelling style why spanking or hitting children is abusive, destructive, and counterproductive. As an antidote he offers parents and teachers constructive methods of healthy discipline they can use to raise happy and emotionally stable children.The Case Against Spanking is written for the `less than perfect′ parent or teacher who wants to learn how to discipline children without using corporal punishment. The author documents the long–term negative effects of spanking?how it brutalizes kids and creates violent adults?and gives common sense advice on alternative methods for dealing with such everyday situations as what to do when your toddler becomes fussy in the grocery store or how to react if your child runs into the street. .